Dear Thursday: On the Fringe of Subconscious
So on Monday night, I had the weirdest dream: Some kind of being came to me and showed me what my life would have been like if I had gone to New York instead of grad school and then LA and what my life would have been like if I had taken the full scholarship I was offered to attend J-school at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
The details were hazy, but I met an artist in New York and we moved to New Mexico where we were living a humble but happy enough life with no kids and no pressure. And in the J-school timeline, I was working in London, having worked my way up from a writer to the executive producer. There was a BF in the periphial somewhere, but it was serious or passionate. I was extremely busy, but my work was very glamorous and I was fashion-industry thin with a wardrobe to match.
The being asked me which life I would prefer, and I said, “Where’s Betty? Where’s my husband? Of course I want them.”
Then I woke up. Spooky, right? And totally true.
But what if I told you that the last thing I watched before going to bed was the season premiere of Fringe which tipped off what will probably be a season wide focus on an alternate reality?
Aha! And the strange thing, is this isn’t even the first time Fringe has inspired a weird dream. It’s happened a few times before. In fact, I think Fringe might be my #1 weird-dream-inducing show.
But how about you? Are there certain shows on TV that often worm their way into your dreams after you see them? Sound off in the comments.
As a pre-teen I was a huge fan of Tails From the Crypt on HBO. It was the most gruesome show on TV at the time. I began having the most bizarre dreams. The only one I remember now is about some sort of brain eating worm that nested in my head and when I went to school I had a seizure in on the floor by my desk. Once dead what happened? The worms started coming out of my nose.
hmmm..my dream isn't as cool as yours, but much grosser.
As a pre-teen I was a huge fan of Tails From the Crypt on HBO. It was the most gruesome show on TV at the time. I began having the most bizarre dreams. The only one I remember now is about some sort of brain eating worm that nested in my head and when I went to school I had a seizure in on the floor by my desk. Once dead what happened? The worms started coming out of my nose.
hmmm..my dream isn't as cool as yours, but much grosser.